mars.venus
Class ToolLoader
java.lang.Object
mars.venus.ToolLoader
public class ToolLoader
- extends Object
This class provides functionality to bring external Mars tools into the Mars
system by adding them to its Tools menu. This permits anyone with knowledge
of the Mars public interfaces, in particular of the Memory and Register
classes, to write applications which can interact with a MIPS program
executing under Mars. The execution is of course simulated. The
private method for loading tool classes is adapted from Bret Barker's
GameServer class from the book "Developing Games In Java".
- Author:
- Pete Sanderson with help from Bret Barker
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
ToolLoader
public ToolLoader()
buildToolsMenu
public JMenu buildToolsMenu()
- Called in VenusUI to build its Tools menu. If there are no qualifying tools
or any problems accessing those tools, it returns null. A qualifying tool
must be a class in the Tools package that implements MarsTool, must be compiled
into a .class file, and its .class file must be in the same Tools folder as
MarsTool.class.
- Returns:
- a Tools JMenu if qualifying tool classes are found, otherwise null